CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

A crashed aircraft, an escaped prisoner, and a dryad grove imperiled. It’s only when the trolls and unicorns pitch in that Schaeffer and the elves realize their days really could get worse. Can they get their escapee back in time to escape with their own lives intact? A Matter of Justice is another story from the Paranormal Operations Squad, involving two officers on a prisoner escort duty gone terribly wrong. Now they must retrieve their prisoner, and avert another major disaster, but can they survive the hazards that find them along the way? You can find links to this newly released, stand-alone, urban fantasy short story on this Books2Read page : https://books2read.com/u/m2adrO or read an earlier version in the collection, Pixie-Dust Dreaming .  

This month I have TWO titles to in the IASFA's cross-genre free and 99c sale - which you can find at: https://iasfa.org/feb24 . What is the IASFA, you ask? Good question. IASFA stands for the International Association of Science Fiction Authors - and includes other genres to boot. For instance, this month we're taking a walk on the wild side and blending our science fiction with our fantasy, or our urban fantasy with our science fiction, or our time travel with... You get the idea. The IASFA supports authors regardless of what stage of career they are at, and have a mailing list with some book giveaways for subscribers. This promotion is in addition to that, and will, in exchange for you joining the list, provide you links to a wide of titles that vary in price from FREE to 99c. I have added two titles, The Unwanted, a werewolf mercenary novel from the Odyssey universe, and Harper's Choice, a science-fiction urban-fantasy short story from the Pixie Dust universe. Both may ...

A s you may already know, I'm a member of th e International Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors (IASFA), which supports authors of science fiction and fantasy, regardless of where in their career, they're at. And as you also might already know, the IASFA runs a promotion of free or 99c books every month, where they ask for a reader's first name and email address so they can add that reader to their newsletter mailing list. As an additional bonus for signing up to the IASFA newsletter as part of this month's promotion, you’ll get five free books in a variety of science fiction and fantasy genres. THIS month, from January 21-25, 2024, (ET), we have a tonne of urban fantasy titles either discounted to 99c (US) or for Free - and you can check out their authors and see if your next favorite is among them at this link, here : https://iasfa.org/jan24 .     One of those titles is Pixie Dust Dreaming, the seventh book in my C.M.'s Collections ser...

Pixies, trolls and urban policing, things got interesting when the Otherworld renewed its connection to ours. A new suite of crimes sprang into existence overnight…and a new breed of officer had to be found to combat them. This volume brings together all the stories, so far published, of the officers in the Paranormal Operations Squad…and the world in which they strive to maintain the peace. Here's the thirtieth entry in this month's release of Pixie Dust Dreaming, the 7th collection in my Collections series, which released on the 4th. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/mY6xvP . The Pixies of Hallowbranch Hill Written on March 2, 2014, this piece first appeared as 365 Days of Flash Fiction , and explores more of the moral questions to be found in the pixie dust world.   I saw the pixies dancing on Hallowbranch Hill. It made sense; the hill resembled the mounds back in what was called ‘The Old Country’. There was probably a door to the Oth...